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From: liberte@uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Improvement Suggestion for Gnu
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Date: Fri, 28-Aug-87 12:43:00 EDT
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Another reason to know whether or not a function is primitive is that
primitives are used directly in C code and a redefinition of the primitive
function with a lisp function is not usually used by the C code.
The programmers manual will distinguish primitives from lisp functions.

dan